Needles and brave faces, sentence 2

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared or not crying; it means feeling scared and doing the hard thing anyway, so a boy who cries through his jab and still holds out his arm is brave.

Who acts: it, boy · What happens: be, not mean, not be, not cry, mean, feel · To what, where: hard thing, jab, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 brave	cop
2	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mean	csubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 scared	advmod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 scared	cop
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mean	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 crying	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 crying	advmod
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 scared	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 means	nsubj
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	parataxis
15	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 means	ccomp
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feeling	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 doing	cc
18	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 feeling	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doing	obj
22	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	18 doing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 boy	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 brave	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 cries	nsubj
28	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 boy	acl:relcl
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 jab	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 jab	nmod:poss
31	jab	jab	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cries	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 holds	cc
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 holds	advmod
34	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cries	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 holds	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 arm	nmod:poss
37	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 holds	obj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 brave	cop
39	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 means	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					brave property	tree rules
2	not mean	present · do-support						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	gerund					scared property	tree rules
4	not cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	feel	gerund					scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	do	gerund		the hard thing			anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	present	a boy		boy's jab			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through jab=Location
9	hold out	present	a boy not said here	jab's arm		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
10	is	present	a boy				brave property	tree rules
11	jab		boy					nom jab «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:2.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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